Doctoral Student Fellow
Ph.D Candidate Department of English, New York University
Noise and Vectors: The Literary History of Abstraction
Ryan Healey is a doctoral student in English at New York University and a founding member of the Digital Theory Lab. His research comprises a literary history of abstraction in writing and computation from the seventeenth century to today––from the early English novel to the large language model. He received an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. from McGill University. His work on a corpus linguistic approach to eighteenth-century genres appeared in Representations, and his essays have been published in Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Inquiry.